This was a fucking cowards ending. There is no reason Gjallarhorn should have undergone reforms, given mars its independence, and otherwise allowed Kudelia and the survivors of Tekkaden to have a 'happy' ending. The studio got cold feet about their planned Bad End and decided to lighten it up such. And it ruins the show. It is a shit ending because they do not commit to making it the darkest ending possible. And I'm not saying I wanted a Bad End, but if you're going to make the decision to do a Bad End, you need to commit.
That's my issue with IBO. It always kind of waffles between its tones and theme.
>>23564811They wanted to make a mafia movie show that concludes with the mafia movie ending, which is all the cast dies. But they got cold feet.
They wanted to wrap the story up in a nice little bow so nothing could come after it. Not doing it would imply the Martian independence struggle continues and someday they might overthrow Rustal after all.
>>23564792Gjallarhorn lost a lot of power through the in-fighting. Yeah, he could have insistent on monopolizing everything, but it'd be an unstable regime by that point.If they planned a new series in the IBO that'd be the path to take, but since they wanted to end things they had him finish things in a way where it doesn't feel like the world would be just setting up another conflict.
>>23564848Nah, doesn't matter how much they lost, they won. And they won so thoroughly that no one could oppose them, nor would anyone oppose them. That is an excuse to justify why the ending isn't bleak and miserable. It is trash. It's having the cake and eating it too. And no they shouldn't have done the bad ending "if they got a third series." Commit to the story you wrote. You wanted to write a story where the bad guys win and everyone dies. Cool, write that. Don't write that 95% of the way then go "Awww jeez... people'll be really sad if we end it on that note, let's change the ending so it's not so sad."
>>23564858>Nah, doesn't matter how much they lost, they won. And they won so thoroughly that no one could oppose them, nor would anyone oppose them.Tekkadan isn't the world.>Don't write that 95% of the way then go "Awww jeez... people'll be really sad if we end it on that note, let's change the ending so it's not so sad."I feel like it's really more so other writers don't go and give it a "good" ending afterwards by having some other "hero" taking down Rustal in a manga, novel or game. IBO was clearly written with the expanded universe in mind from the start, considering stuff like the number of Gundams said to exist compared to how many show up in the tv show.Note even the If scenario in Cross Rays and SRW DD don't touch on Rustal at all.
>>23564858>And they won so thoroughly that no one could oppose them, nor would anyone oppose themYou don't even know what Gjallarhorn is, retard. They're not a government. They're a pseudo-military that acts on behalf of the Earth nations. They're semi-independent, but need the backing of the economic blocs to retain broad power, and by the end of S1, they were already losing the confidence of the economic blocs because of their failure to stop Makanai from re-entering the re-election for Arbrau's PM. And S2 opens with Rustal trying to undermine McGillis's leadership as the de facto leader of the Issue family, Fareed family, and Bauduin family forces. It's not just harming McGillis, it's harming Gjallarhorn's image too because whether McGillis is a traitor or not he basically represents nearly half of the Seven Stars families. McGillis already forced Gjallarhorn's hand by killing two of the family heads and effectively hijacking their power and then starting a secret civil war with Rustal, who uses "mercenaries" to undermine Gjallarhorn's reputation in the regions served by McGillis. Even if McGillis didn't start a full blown rebellion, which made Gjallarhorn's image even weaker, the economic blocs were losing confidence in Gjallarhorn and hiring 3rd party mercenaries and building up their own forces. That's the entire reason why Tekkadan is on Earth. Abrau, under Makanai, hired them to bolster their own national security forces in the war against the SAU instead of relying on Gjallarhorn to resolve the dispute. But again, the entire incident was manipulated by Rustal who exacerbated the conflict to undermine McGillis's leadership because he saw McGillis as a greater threat than Gjallarhorn losing the confidence of the Earth.Gjallarhorn changing was inevitable when McGillis made his move by killing his friends and Tekkadan by backing Arbrau and beating Gjallarhorn's best at Edmonton. But they got greedy and wanted more personal power.
Kudelia and Atra were supposed to die in the orbital bombing. You were supposed to see their lifeless arms protruding out of the rubble with the camera focusing on their friendship bracelets to go with Mikazukis death scene where the camera lingers on his friendship bracelet as blood runs down his arm onto the bracelet.
But I was told Rustal was a bad guy because he hurt our pookies
Mad he won?
>>23564792>>23564811>>23564840>There is no reason Gjallarhorn should have undergone reformsYou're taking it at face value. Rustal used Tekkadan and McGills rebellion as an excuse to consolidate power and cut out the other 6 families. It's not a clean cut win for the good guys.We see throughout the series how cunning and underhanded he is. This is a guy who brought out illegal weapons, used AV where it served him and did false flag attacks. Nothing in this series indicates he's a noble character.The ending is depicting how governments are effective at subverting political actors for their own goals.> It is a shit ending because they do not commit to making it the darkest ending possibleyou're just being an edgelord, the IBO ending being bittersweet is fair enough.
>>23565387Nah it's a coward bitch move. they admitted themselves they had a darker ending planned. I don't like Bad Ends. But I like less cowarding out.
>Mikazuki’s jizz is so powerful and nourishing that Atra grows a full two feet of height after an early teenage pregnancy, and his son is a literal clone aside from having Atra’s hair color
>>23565494Nano tech jizz
>>23565387> You're taking it at face value. Rustal used Tekkadan and McGills rebellion as an excuse to consolidate power and cut out the other 6 familiesSource? Or is this just more head canon? Because he has less power as an elected official. Who got elected. Unless your going to head canon again that he rigged that.
Tekkadan deserved to lose.
